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...soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head. But Practical-Joker Jensen had not killed the children, who are alive, well...
...every way the opposite of "Abie." Exceedingly popular, he claims to know more persons in Manhattan than anyone else not in public life. He has been photographed with eight prizefight champions, is an accomplished diner out, is in perpetual demand as a toastmaster. Also he is a practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name on a modiste's advertisement card in the window, he telephoned her, saying: "This is God. Ain't you ashamed...
...That's the joker in our deck. If the next Republican convention renominates Mr. Hoover it will be an utterly useless gesture and result in certain and calamitous defeat...
Inglehurst Joker, Charles Inglees' Gordon setter...
...point of additional interest you might make an inquiry of the National Banks to see just how many of them will now make loans on these Certificates as provided for under Section B. There is quite a joker there! Look into...